The Christian Century - stewardshiphttp://www.christiancentury.org/taxonomy/term/2169/0
enMissteps in church plantinghttp://www.christiancentury.org/article/2015-07/missteps-church-planting
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<p>As I sat in a circle of church planters discussing ministry, a stream of confession emerged: "I've made a lot of mistakes."</p> </div>
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<p><b>&nbsp;</b><span>There is a prevalent idea in culture that pastors are money-grubbers. I think I have met one of those. Maybe. But, for the most part, we hate asking for money. The majority of church budgets go to salaries, and we feel bad about that, even if we make less than a third of the average person in our congregation. So we can get embarrassed during stewardship time.</span></p> </div>
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<p><a href="http://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2015-07/first-rule-stewardship-planning-have-fun" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2015-07/first-rule-stewardship-planning-have-fun#commentsbudgetsgenerationsraising moneystewardshipFri, 10 Jul 2015 05:00:00 +0000Carol Howard Merritt31325 at http://www.christiancentury.orgBusiness of the kingdomhttp://www.christiancentury.org/article/2015-01/business-kingdom
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<p>The New Testament offers two compelling models for our relationship with money. When translated into a vision for a whole society, each is flawed.</p> </div>
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<p><a href="http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2015-01/business-kingdom" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2015-01/business-kingdom#commentschurch financesChurch of Englanddenominational financestewardshipTue, 27 Jan 2015 06:00:00 +0000Samuel Wells29624 at http://www.christiancentury.orgI don't want a patronhttp://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2014-04/i-dont-want-patron
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<p>I recently spoke at a stewardship conference. I always learn a tremendous amount when I speak, and that conference in particular was full of insightful people who inspired me to think theologically and practically about stewardship.</p> </div>
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<p>We know about all of the shifts in communication and technology, but there are also huge changes when it comes to giving money. Younger generations often think much differently when it comes to finances and budgeting, and we should think differently as a church as well.</p> </div>
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<p class="p1">The passage (Mark 12:41–44) about the poor widow who put “everything she had” in the temple treasury was among the lectionary readings a few weeks ago, and it’s a frequent text for stewardship sermons. The example of the widow’s generosity seems clear enough, and it’s part of the church’s standard repertoire about sacrificial giving.&nbsp;</p><p class="p1">But Fergus Kerr suggests that the story is about not generosity but exploitation.&nbsp;</p> </div>
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<p>I cherish Thanksgiving for its cultural institutionalization of the practice of gratitude. And because there are no gifts and few cards.</p> </div>
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<p>My files are full of stewardship sermons. So it came as a shock when people would say, “We know you don’t like to talk about money.”</p> </div>
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<p>In the languid days of midsummer, when church financial income is at low ebb, it is a comfort to remember that Paul too had stewardship issues in his churches. It’s not a new phenomenon. It turns out that every generation of Christians has managed to find something else to do with their hard-earned money besides offer it to the work of the body of Christ.</p> </div>
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<p>What might God have to say about the creatures most people don&rsquo;t think of as lovable?</p> </div>
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